floating in the clouds

So this is what happened. Starting my new full time job was way more hectic than I thought. Blogmas was way more intense than I thought. December was way more busier than I thought. So I did what I do best, which was disappear. I never got any blog posts written out, ghosted a bunch of my friends, and dropped off the face of the planet. Less of that in 2020. But as new years is tomorrow and Christmas is just about officially over, I absolutely have to get my Christmas post up! I love my little chilled, chinwag Christmas posts. I had an amazingly relaxed Christmas this year. I had a few days off (I'm working in a job (finally) that doesn't require me to work the three days over Christmas) I ate so much food it physically hurt me, drank so much alcohol I was constantly warm and stayed permanently in my PJs. It was lush. My presents this year were amazing. They all perfectly enrapture my grandma personality. Books, herbal teas, bath bombs and hot water bottles. Ooooh. Perfe...

I wanted to post another birthday post, on what I actually got up to on the day. Mostly because we went for dinner in the cutest place and although I never got a decent photo of myself, my outfit was cute. I also felt really inspired on my birthday and really wanted to talk about how much my friends have gone above and beyond for me recently.  I really did feel alone this year, and after hitting rock bottom I've had so many friends not only show me the most kindness I've ever known, but they've all inspired me so much. I've hid the writer side of me for so long, and this blog wasn't known by anyone I knew personally until just a few months ago.  The love and encouragement I've had has been incredible, I wasn't expecting to be built up like this by the people in my life and I'm so grateful for everyone who has been by my side the past few weeks. It's been a very intense time for me yet I've found myself bouncing off the walls with joy most da...

I always love getting out of the house and doing cute things, going out for food, drinks, to the cinema, mini golf etc. But during Christmas it can become difficult to have those nights out doing things, because money is tight and places put they're prices up, traffic is insane, the weather is crap... there's a surplus of reasons. Mostly it's just money related though. So I decided to come up with a few things you can do to have a nice night in, with friends, family or your partner. But are on the cheaper side, cosier side, and more intimate than a busy, loud restaurant or bar. I'm someone who makes the smallest things into a massive deal, so these night in ideas are essentially very basic - but I'm stepping them up a notch so they become a bit more special and a bit more memorable. I'll start with the one on my Christmas bucket list. A gingerbread house competition.  I'm probably going to do this with my little brother, hair shoved up in a bun, comfi...

I knew blogmas was going to be hard, a post everyday for 24/25 days is hard work. With starting a full time job alongside it, it's made it almost impossible. But I vowed to myself I would do it this year, and I will post 24 posts if it kills me. So I will be doing multiple post days, and spend my days off work writing everything Christmassy that comes to mind! I'm actually not at all feeling Christmassy this year. I think I'm so focussed on my personal projects and work and my inner peace that Christmas just isn't on my mind. We've only just put the tree up. But today I'm taking us back to the Christmas light switch on. I've done this blog post every year - the Christmas lights in Leicester post. I always will do until the day I'm not living in Leicester. I love the lights switch on, the counting down in a huge crowd of people, walking the newly lit streets with a costa thawing your frozen hands, watching the Salvation army brass brand in the town h...

It was my twenty-second birthday yesterday. I'm 22. So much has happened this past year of being 21. I was living away from home in a student accommodation, absolutely miserable at uni but determined that being a nurse was my future as I came in my 21st year. It's been such a valuable life lesson -the whole year of being 21, so I wanted to talk about some of the things I've learnt/experienced being in my early twenties. Without being too sentimental because I need to keep that for my end of year posts. So being 21, it's a horrible age because you really are setting up your foundations for "who you want to be when you grow up", it feels like when you're 19 you can still be experimenting with what you like and don't like, you can party and be irresponsible and live off your parents and be a lot more chill. Your early twenties seem more rushed in the sense that there is added pressure to take up more responsibilities. It's okay to not know what you...

Christmas is well known as one of the most stressful times of the year, the workplace seems to get much more intense, the traffic is absolute madness, the weather just seems stressful with its' slippy roads, heavy rain, and it being so cold it's always mad dashes to and from where you need to be. And that's before the actual stresses of Christmas, the food shop, the gifts for everyone, the expense of everything, the kids being off school... Sometimes Christmas can be so stressful that it can lose its magic, and the enjoyment of the season gets lost. I did write a post on little things I do to manage my time at Christmas a few years ago. That post can be found 'here '. This time I wanted to write a little post on getting into the Christmas spirit via a festive self care evening, which I think is an important thing to do. Obviously self care is an extremely important factor to incorporate into your life, more so during this time of the year where, like mentioned, it ...

In September I did a list of all the things I wanted to do in autumn. I really liked doing it, and actually it gave me a guide for when I had a free day, to go back to that post and do something I knew I wanted to do. So as Christmas is such a busy period, I thought I'd do the same so I can come back and remember a few of the things I wanted to do this holiday season. I don't know how much free time I'll have this December due to starting full time work, but this is my Christmas goals/bucketlist: - Go to a Christmas market. I love Christmas markets, they're my favourite days out, I went to one on my 19th birthday and it was one of my favourite days ever. - Ice skate. I know, I have terrible luck when it comes to ice skating (after smashing my two front teeth last time) but I love to go ice skating, I'm not actually too bad at it and I started learning to skate backwards last time! - Have a gingerbread house contest. I have wanted to do this for years and I d...

I'd been really looking forward to seeing this film, since the first trailer. I'm such a sucker for rom coms, especially Christmas rom coms. I'm also a fan of George Michael and Wham, and a fan of Emila Clarke. It was a film that couldn't go wrong for me really. source We went to go see the film after our city did their Christmas lights switch on, I wanted to make a day of it and have a really nice, Christmassy, festive, amazing day.  Coming out of the cinema later that night left me feeling so enlightened and inspired I knew I had to write up a review. I know the film has been out a while now, but I thought this would make a perfect Blogmas post so I had to hold off posting it, this review is more of me talking about what the film did for me and how it impacted me in such a great way. This post also will not contain any spoilers, but I will be talking about themes within the film. The trailer actually gave nothing away about the plot, so if you want the film t...

It's the first of December! Welcome to Blogmas. I'm dedicating so much of my time this month to really make sure I get a post out every day, I love doing Christmas themed posts and this year I've really planned out some exciting ones I can't wait to get posted. But today we're starting with a December 1st tradition. It is not the start of December unless you're cracking open a cardboard door of an advent calendar for the first of many treats counting you down to Christmas. Over the past few years advent calendars have broadened out from the usual tacky chocolate pieces to beauty ones, jewellery, candles, alcohol themed calendars... and the list gets longer and longer every year. This year I've compiled a few of these "alternative" advent calendar that caught my attention, and wow there are some interesting ones out there. I kinda want them all. Starting with a vegan chocolate advent calendar, "Waitrose" do this fairly cheap one, as t...